Thursday, March 28, 2013

Holding out for a hero

At times like this what us girls need is not some suave well-mannered new man but a bloke from Powys with a snow blower....

Cometh the hour, cometh that man bloke.

He and his mate on the digger are making glacial progress along the lane. One blows and the other scrapes.

I stumble across the drifts at hedge height to meet them for a progress report.

There is a vague possibility that they will reach us later today but I'm not holding my breath. Tomorrow maybe? My new friend tells me he'll be back 'on the bins' then and doesn't know if they will find anyone to replace him on the 'blower. So when we'll actually be able to drive out is anyone's guess.

In truth that's not really a hardship - there is still food in the freezer and we have not resorted to burning the furniture yet.

We can just sit it out. It's those who have to work in such conditions - the farmers and the road clearers who are the heroes of the hour. I don't think that anyone, ever, got mentioned in despatches for staying indoors and looking out of the window.

13 comments:

That's astonishing! You're only a few hours drive from here and it's like you're on a completely different continent. Good blokes, though, for clearing your lane, I hope the path to freedom is soon open.

As for burning the furniture, we burned our garden bench last month and a lovely hot fire it made too. It's not as if we'd actually had any nice weather last year to enable us sit in the garden on it! :D

Your freezer must be much better stocked than ours ... at least I hope it is !It does all look stunning but I hope it clears up in a day or two . That much snow makes the Easter Egg Hunt so difficult ....

And here am I proposing to cut the grass! I suppose we are Wales' riviera down here. Hope your man turns up with the snow blower. That sounds rather fun. I suppose elfnsafty prohibit ordinary mortals from lending a hand.

Waving across through the snow. I saw the first swallow Friday, it might turn back to where it came from equally as quick as the cranes did. Bought an old Range Rover to cope in any weather...no new computer, yet.

Wow! We still have drifts in the kitchen garden but most of it has gone now with perhaps about ten per cent of what came down still stubbornly lying in drifts and valleys. A rise in temperature and a bit of rain are what we need! I have had enough now.

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Just an ordinary sort of person who's ended up living on a hill side in Wales (just). I don't live in a teepee or indulge in hand-knitted museli. Neither do I hunt, shoot or fish - though am intimately associated with one who does.